I'm trying to clone some Icom radios but am having a communications problem. When I connect to an HT with its cable, it works fine. When I try to connect to the mobile unit with a different cable and different software, I get a comm error. I know the cable might be the problem but it is new and "should" work. Any tips on troubleshooting the comm link to figure out if its the cable, the software, the port settings or the radio?

I don't know how to trouble shoot what you have, but I have software and a cable for the IC-V8000 and my laptop. It might be able to just pull the info from one of the radios into a file that we can use to program the others.... I don't know if the software and cable is the same, i'd have to look.

I had to play around with Comm port settings to get it to work, but I couldn't tell you what I did.. I jsut clicked around till it worked.